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Books and Videos Web sites linked here list books and videos that are good resources for working with youth horticulture and gardening. Books The Montessori Garden - The Montessori Garden is a 45 page, spiral-bound manual containing everything you need to get started including 32 detailed garden exercises. These exercises can be packaged and stored in the garden, allowing children to be self-paced and self-directed in their garden activities. The American Community Gardening Association has several publications on growing communities through gardening for sale. They also have two issues of their annual publication on-line for free viewing, one of which is dedicated to school gardening. (takes about a minute to download) The on-line Teacher Resource Guide from the California Foundation for Agriculture in the Classroom (CFAITC) is a a comprehensive list of existing resources to help educators incorporate agricultural topics into their curriculum. CFAITC's on-line Garden & Nutrition Resource Catalog gives reviews and ordering information of about 60 resources in this subject area for primary and secondary school students. Virginia Tech lists many good gardening books for children along with their publisher information and targeted age group. Most of these are activity guide books. Texas A& M also has a list of good gardening books for children listed with the authors' names. Some are fictional and some are instruction books. Univ. of Massachusetts's Extension Publications for K-12 includes contains a list of resource books for order from them. Most books cover topics in nature or ecology, with several specifically about plants and gardening. Journey to Forever has a list of children's gardening books and resources. Some are available on-line but most are for order (or you could just buy in a store). Videos Arizona offers: NR140 The Desert Oasis looks at vanishing riparian zones (plants and animals) of the Sonoran Desert PS100 Of The Earth: Agriculture and the New Biology PS101 Farming Today--Community Pride Minnesota offers: Minnesota Gardening: Cold Frames, Hot Beds Minnesota Gardening: Roses and Cut Flowers Minnesota Gardening: The Art of Bonsai New Mexico offers: Desert Blooms: A Sunscape Guide to Plants for a Water-Scarce Region Crazy About Corn Green Gold: From Maya to the Moon: A video that traces horticulture crops and their influence on human history.